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M. G. MORRILL.

YARN WINDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. l9]?- 1 ,322, 8 l 2 Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

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MANLEY G. MORRILL, or BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT, AssIGNoa To THE STAFFORD COMPANY, OF nnanvrnnn, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

YARN-WINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 25, 1919.

Application filed February 24, 1917. Serial No. 150,812.

1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MANLEY Gr. MORRILL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brattleboro, county of Windham, State of Vermont, have invented an Improvement in Yarn-Winders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, l ke characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention comprises improved and novel yarn saving mechanism for withdrawing from loom shuttle bobbins the yarn which remains thereon after the shuttles containing such bobbins have been expelled or withdrawn from the looms in which they are employed.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of a loom having applied thereto a preferred construction of one embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan of the Fig. l.

Referring now to the drawings and to the illustrative embodiment of my invention selected for descriptive purposes, I have shown one side frame 3 of a loom and the crank-shaft 5 projecting therefrom and carrying the hand wheel 4:.

At 17 is a container for shuttles from which the weft or filling yarn remaining therein is to be Withdrawn. It is in this instance the catch-box into which shuttles fall in being expelled from the lay through the action of automatic weft-replenishing instrumentalities. It is mounted upon a bracket or stand 10 attached to the sideframe 3.

At 14 is a rotating tapered spool or drum located in a position relative to the container for shuttles such as to enable an end of weft or filling, extending Outward through the delivery-eye of a shuttle occupying such container, to be applied to the periphery of the said spool or drum, and so that by the continued rotation of the spool' or drum the said end shall be wound thereon.

The illustrated arrangement of the winding spool or drum 14L with reference to the catch-box is such that the yarn issuing from the delivery-eye of a shuttle occupying the said box passes over the smooth upper edge Of the rear side-wall of the said box and is supported and guided thereby on its way to the periphery of the spool or drum. The

parts shown in latter is shown as mounted upon stud 12 pro ectmg outwardly from the slde-frame 2-5, and 111 this instance is drlven from the crank-shaft by means of sprocket-gearing comprising a chain 15 passing around sprocket-wheels attached to the crank-shaft and spool or drum respectively.

In order to facilitate the removal of the wound mass of yarn from the periphery of the spool or drum 14: without cutting and in a form resembling somewhat a hank or skein, the spool or drum is made of tapering shape as shown most clearly in Fig. 2.

My invention enables the bobbins occupying the shuttles which are thrown int-o the container to be stripped or emptied very conveniently, and without requiring any particular action on the part of the weaver other than that involved in taking hold of the controlling end of weft or filling extending outward through the delivery-eye of a shuttle and applying it to the periphery of the spool :or drum. As soon as the end has'become attached to the spool or drum, which in most cases will be effected immediately as a result of the frictional engagement between the Wound yarn already upon the said spool or drum and the said trailing end, the winding of the weft or filling from the sliuttleacontained bobbin will proceed until such weft or filling comes to an end.

I have shown a second winding arrangement which forms no part of my present invention, it comprising a tapered spool or drum 9 mounted upon the end of the crankshaft 5 and receiving the yarns from bobbins which have been removed from the shuttle or shuttles in which they were contained during the weaving process and placed upon spindles? carried by a stand 6 attached to the said frame 3 of the loom, 16 being a guiding arrangement over the upper ends of the said bobbins to serve in properly leading off the yarns from the upper ends of the bobbins.

Claim- Yarn saving means combined with the catch-box of a loom comprising means operatively related to the catch-box for withdrawing the yarn from the bobbins in the shuttles in said catch-box, the yarn feeding from the bobbins through the eyes of the shuttles and to said withdrawing means.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

MANLEY o. MORRILL. 

